Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple awesomely simple that's creativity.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

A person is a process, one that leads to death.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent